Blame the National Rifle Association if you want for the wide distribution of guns in the United States, as many politicians do. At least blaming the NRA is safer politically than blaming the tens of millions of Americans who own guns legally and responsibly.

Leading Connecticut Democratic politicians, including Sen. Richard Blumenthal and Sen.-elect Chris Murphy, raced to denounce NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre for arguing Dec. 21 that the best response to the Dec. 14 elementary school massacre in Newtown would be to put armed guards in all schools.

Yet the first response of government itself throughout the country was to increase police presence at schools, and of course about a third of all schools, mostly high schools, already had a permanent police presence — not to protect students against rampaging outsiders like the one who attacked the school in Newtown, but to protect students and teachers against other students.

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